Diet for a dying planet
And You Thought It Was Just ‘Pink’ Slime, Lena Groeger, ProPublica
April 2012
Did you represent yourself in court?
CBC.ca | Ontario Today | Friday: Did you represent yourself in court?
Social Statistics: Ignorance Is Bliss
Pretty soon asking even the most basic social policy questions will require huge amounts of investment in primary research. Regularly published statistical reports and summaries are disappearing by the minute.…
Serving the greedy, not the needy
Wading through financial reports of BC’s two main political parties leads me to the conclusion that BC Liberals have lost interest in honest and ethical government and are now focused…
New column day
Here, on the distinction between healthy optimism and dangerous boosterism – and how both the Harper and Wall governments are dragging Saskatchewan toward the latter.
Union warns of huge border security risks due to cuts
Inspired by this headline: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2012/04/11/mb-cbsa-border-budget-cuts.html
Health Integration: Not in Ontario
I am sure there is a plan to improve health care. There must be: Ontario’s recent budget says it wants to improve integration, control costs and increase access. Yet Ontario’s…
Windfarms do not Kill Birds
There have been allegations that wind turbines kill birds and thus are a negative power system overall. Science to the rescue! Ornithologists have completed a study about migratory birds and…
Slowest app on my phone…
… by a mile… Fix this. No app should take 1 minute plus to load!!! Now back to your regular station. Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
Yet ANOTHER Poll, This Time Ontario – 34% PC, 31% NDP, 29% Liberal
However I can’t confirm the numbers 100% since its hearsay from Ontario News Watch, but they say its an Angus Reid poll and it shows the Ontario Liberals in third…
My camera survived!
This was the last photograph I took on Sunday before going ass-over-tea-kettle into the waters of the Tay River’s Grant’s Creek at Allan Mills. I then walked across the arched,…
Turning up the volume over cuts to CBC by Paula Arab
CBC boss Hubert Lacroix warns the 10 per cent cut will mean “a very different public broadcaster,” with less original programming, more reruns and the introduction of commercials on radio.
Second Quebec Poll Shows Traditional Parties Laughing
Which is a shame, as noted in the last post’s comments. Forum Research: Parti québécois: 39% – 69 seats Parti libéral: 34% – 50 seats Coalition Avenir: 18% – 4…
Attacking public sector workers is a bad idea
During economic downturns, people have a tendency to turn on one another. We blame victims and eat our own. I’ve been alive long enough to have seen it more than…
Coalition targets CBC’s free music site by Steve Ladurantaye
Columnist says a number of Canadian media companies have joined forces to try to shut down a free music website recently launched by the Canadian Broadcasting Corp., claiming it threatens…
sparks will fly as party leaders take off their gloves at tonight’s “make or break” televised debate.
The televised leaders' debate starts tonight at 6:30pm. Tonight’s hotly anticipated televised Leaders’ Debate will be the first time that the four main party leaders have debated each other in…
Proposed local CBC Radio station placed in doubt
The CBC has announced the proposed new station which was to open in the Kitchener area this fall will be delayed by “a few months.”
Re: Advertising on CBC Radio 2 & Espace Musique
FRIENDS encourages the CRTC to reject a CBC proposal to place ads on Radio 2 & Espace Musique and instead proceed with the long-delayed review of the overall licensing of…